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Stan Lee Coasts On Past Career To New Superhero Franchise
It's rare that you read a news story that makes you think, "Haven't any of you seen 'Who Wants To Be A Superhero'?" but the announcement that Stan Lee is partnering with two other production companies to launch a new superhero property is just one of those stories. Don't get me wrong, I love Lee's work as much as the next geek, but seriously, people. You're throwing your money away, here. More »
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Who Would Want To Be This Superhero?
The people competing to be Stan Lee's newest superhero in Who Wants To Be A Superhero? must not have seen his 2006 TV movie Lightspeed. Lightspeed stars Sean Connery's son Jason as Daniel Leight, a government agent who gains the ability to run at super-speed... but the speed is killing his metabolism. (Just imagine Stan Lee creating the Flash... again!) This is the only watchable scene in the whole thing, thanks to supervillain Python's dialogue about face-eating, blow-torch leg amputation, and severed legs running in circles. Actually, we're not sure what Python is talking about, but it sounds massively creepy.
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The Man Receives His Own Excelsior
Proving that you only have to die creatively instead of literally before receiving any kind of lifetime achievement award, Marvel Comics co-creator Stan Lee will be given the first "New York Comic Legend Award" as part of this year's New York Comic-Con. The award recognizes not only his amazing contribution to the comic medium, but also his voice-over talent that started each and every episode of Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends. More »
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io9 took a spin through Gallery 1988 and Golden Apple Comics last night in Los Angeles as artists like Ruben Rude, Travis Lampe, Brandon Bird, Patrick Gannon, Misha, Angry Woebots, Jeff McMillan, Sarah Coleman and Daniel Danger paid tribute to Stan "The Man" Lee through reinterpretations of some of his most famous characters. The result was some seriously trippy artwork ranging from X-Men plushies to a sort of wacky Mickey Mouse meets The Hulk on acid painting. Take a look for yourself in the gallery below.
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Trippy Re-Interpretations of Stan Lee's Comic Book Characters at Art Show
io9 took a spin through Gallery 1988 and Golden Apple Comics last night in Los Angeles as artists like Ruben Rude, Travis Lampe, Brandon Bird, Patrick Gannon, Misha, Angry Woebots, Jeff McMillan, Sarah Coleman and Daniel Danger paid tribute to Stan "The Man" Lee through reinterpretations of some of his most famous characters. The result was some seriously trippy artwork ranging from X-Men plushies to a sort of wacky Mickey Mouse meets The Hulk on acid painting. Take a look for yourself in the gallery below.
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Marvel Working On 'Power Pack' Movie
Stan Lee had a lot to talk about earlier this week when he accepted his Jules Verne Lifetime Achievement award, and one of those things was the fact that Marvel has been seriously considering doing a movie based on their Power Pack comic book. You can't chalk this one up to senility, because Lee definitely has all his marbles with him, but dear god in heaven please send a packet of smelling salts to the bigwigs over there before it's too late. More »
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Stan Lee Shouts 'Excelsior!' At io9
Stan Lee was the recipient of a much-deserved Jules Verne Lifetime Achievement Award this week, presented to him by Doug Jones (who played the Silver Surfer onscreen in the recent Fantastic Four sequel) and by Heroes creator Tim Kring and co-executive producer Jeph Loeb. It might have been a lifetime achievement award, but he certainly doesn't show any signs of slowing down at this point. The creator of The Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Iron Man, and a host of other costume-wearing comic book characters told us about his upcoming cameos in Marvel movies, and the origin of his catch phrase. More »
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Must Read: Essential Fantastic Four Volumes 1 - 5
Must-read comics are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-read is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale.Title: Essential Fantastic Four volumes 1 - 5
Date: 2001 - 2006 (reprinting material from 1961 - 1970)
Vitals: At least those communist beatniks were good for one thing. In the desperate rush to beat the Reds to outer space, Reed Richards forgot to check the safety of his rocketship, bombarding himself, his girlfriend, her brother and his best friend with cosmic rays transforming them into the Fantastic Four - the comic that launched Marvel Comics, changed the comic industry and medium forever, and forty years later gave Michael Chiklis a reason to put on a styrofoam faux rock body suit. More »
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Must Read: The Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus
Must-read comics are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-read is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale.Title: Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus
Date: 2007 (reprinting material from 1963 - 1966)
Vitals: You all know the story by now: Boy gets bitten, starts climbing the walls and producing sticky goo "web". But you might not know how weird and wonderfully off-kilter the original stories are - This collection of the entire run by the original creative team is a good way to find out. More »
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Must Read: The Silver Surfer Omnibus
Must-read comics are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-read is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale.Title: Silver Surfer Omnibus
Date: 2007 (reprinting material from 1968 - 1970)
Vitals: One of the stranger creations from Jack Kirby and Stan Lee's Fantastic Four was this cosmically-powered, purple-prose-spouting peacenik who liked to fly around space on his floating surfboard. Amazingly, recreational drugs were apparently not connected with his origins. More »
